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Migration
Many migration studies use modern techniques combining radio transmitters with satellite tracking. The studies involve both very scare and quite common species and have recently uncovered a great deal of information regarding both routes and en route feeding and hidden wintering grounds etc. I was just reading an article extolling the virtues of "viz mig" otherwise known as visible migration. It really is a joy to see and can be a treat in an unlikely circumstance. last year, for example, I was waiting in a town centre in SE England whilst my wife shopped. Looking up (this was late september) I saw a few swallows passing south over the high street. 20 minutes later I was up to 800 - that afternoon others reported many thousands of swallows on the move. A joy to marvel at. Migration may not be spectacular and rarity oriented. watching your local patch at migration times brings the frisson of finding less common birds, or even just ones not common to the patch. A sudden influx of Scandinavian Robins can be as exciting as finding a true rarity. See individual countries for Bird Observatories. |
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Bird Migration
by Dominic Couzens New Holland ?12.99See Fatbirder Review
ISBN: 184330970X
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Bird Migration - A General Survey
[Second Edition 2001] by Peter Berthold ? Translated by Hans-Gunther Bauer & Valerie Westhead ? OUPSee Fatbirder Review
ISBN: 0198507879
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Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds
by Scott Weidensaul Paperback 432 pages Henry Holt & Co 2000ISBN: 0865475911
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Songbird Journeys - Four seasons in the lives of migratory birds
by Miyuko Chu, Walker Books, 2006ISBN: 166397A
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The Migration Ecology of Birds
by Ian Newton Academic Press 2007 ISBN 9780125173674ISBN: 169548
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BTO - Birdtrack
http://www.bto.org/birdtrack/The online bird recording scheme to increase the personal, local and national value of your sightings...
Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/MigratoryBirds/The Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center is dedicated to fostering greater understanding, appreciation, and protection of the grand phenomenon of bird migration...
Trektellen
http://www.trektellen.nl/default.asp?land=1Migration counts and ringing records The Netherlands, Flanders and France...
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Smithsonian Migratory Bird Centre
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/MigratoryBirds/The Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center is dedicated to fostering greater understanding, appreciation, and protection of the grand phenomenon of bird migration...
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Travelling Birder
http://www.travellingbirder.com
The Travellingbirder.com birding trip report search engine guides you to 7,000+ birding trip reports on the Internet. You can search for trip reports from a specific country and time of year. Not all these reports are in English. So, if you can’t find the trip report you want on this Fatbirder page… give them a try!
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700 - Bird Migrations
http://www.disknet.com/indiana_biolab/bird700.htmNotes on bird migrations; especially in Southern Indiana
ARRCN Asian Raptor Migration WebPage
http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~raptor/index.htmThis web site is consisted by information of Asian raptor migration. Therfore, if you have some information on Asian raptor migration, please send me the data.We ask that the following raptor migration data be provided, at least.
Aviscience
http://www.aviscience.com/A new and building scientific resource for ornithologists and birders everywhere...
Biogeographical Profiles of Shorebird Migration in Midcontinental North America
http://www.mesc.usgs.gov/products/Publications/555/555.aspThe biogeographic information described here will help identify the uniqueness of different regions of the plains to migrating shorebirds. Although shorebirds migrating along Atlantic and Pacific coastal areas are capable of long jumps between refueling stops, there is evidence that some species move short rather than long distances between refueling sites. Maps of distribution patterns and chronology accounts can lend insight towards understanding migration strategies of the different shorebird species...
Bird Kills At Towers And Other Man-Made Structures
http://www.jmu.edu/wmra/engineering/bibliography.htmlThe purpose of this document is to increase public awareness of the potential impacts of towers and other man-made structures by highlighting some of the pertinent literature on the subject. The bibliography focuses primarily on collisions with communication towers, lighted buildings, and (to a lesser degree) windows. No effort has been made to cover collisions with power lines or wind turbines, topics that have been addressed by Bevanger (1994) and Hebert et al. (1995).
Bird Migration Numbers
http://www.birdmigration.tkOne of the best parts of birdwatching is bird migration. Watching the sun rise, hear and see the birds fly over. The only things you need is a chair to sit on, binoculars and coffee. The purpose of this activity: It`s nice to do; The purpose of this site: to give you an idea of how many of what birds migrate when and how much can you see of it on an arbitrary location in the Netherlands.
Bird Monitoring in North America
http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/birds.htmlThe monitoring programs highlighted on these pages can be used to track changes in North American bird populations. These trends give conservationists, managers, citizens, and policy makers a window into the natural world and the health of environment. The patterns of increase and decrease are quantifications that can be tested against and compared to the subjective feelings we have on the status of birds in North America. Are more species increasing than decreasing? Are Eastern Bluebirds doing well or poorly? What do we know about shorebirds? Learn about these programs, use their data, participate in the counts, and write about the changes.
Birdcast
http://www.birdsource.org/birdcast/BirdCast is an exciting new collaborative effort that enables anyone to track migrating birds as they move through the Mid-Atlantic region. Not only do BirdCast Web-watchers see radar imagery which depicts bird movements throughout peak migration periods, but they have the opportunity to help scientists better analyze what the radar images mean by reporting what they are seeing out in their yards, in parks, or at other favorite bird-watching spots...
Birds of Prey
http://www.jaybat.com/birdsahoy/hawks/I`m most familiar with the migrations of Broad-winged Hawks, Mississippi Kites, and Red-tailed Hawks over the central and western Gulf Coast United States. The most exciting experience I`ve had was at Hazel Bazemore County Park in Corpus Christi, Texas, where tens of thousands of Broad-winged Hawks are visible in late September. If you spend a week or so there between the 19th and 28th of the month, I`ll guarantee you`ll be amazed at what you`ll see.
Birdwatch Ireland Migration
http://www.birdwatchireland.ie/migration/pages/intro1.htmlBird migration is one of the world`s most extraordinary wonders. Millions of birds travel thousands of miles, only to make the return journey a few months later.
Black Stork Migration
http://www.explorado.org/solonA formidable adventure is being prepared... a film on the black stork and its migration in autumn is already made! A permanent follow-up on this Web site (continuously updated) will be assured... Below, some photographs taken in the forest of the Belgian Ardennes.
Black-Faced Spoonbills Migration Route Satellite
http://www.wbsj.org/nature/database/report/spoonbill/migration.pdfBlack-faced Spoonbills are waders belonging to the family Ibidae. There are only about 600 of them in the world, and are recognised as one of the globally rare species. They breed mainly near the Korean Peninsula and migrate to Vietnam, China, Taiwan and Japan for wintering. This pdf file shows the results of the monitoring...
Cigogne Blanche
http://www.cigognes.org/White stork satelite tracking (in French)
Convention on Migratory Species
http://www.cms.int/... Conservation and effective management of migratory species of wild animals require the concerted action of all States within the national jurisdictional boundaries of which such species spend any part of their life cycle...
Far Eastern Curlew Tracking
http://www.ramsar.org/w.n.curlew_update.htmThe Far Eastern Curlew (Numenius madagascariensis generally inhabits sea and lake shore mud flats, deltas and similar areas, where it forages for crabs and other crustaceans, clam worms and other annelids, molluscs, insects and whatever else it can dig out of the mud with its long, downward-turned bill. There are estimated to be about 21,000 of them in existence in the world, though its number is on the decline due to the destruction of its wetland habitat environment. It is listed as rare and endangered in the Japan Red Data Book, while categorised as near-threatened and a species in need of protection in the BirdLife International Red Data Book. Their breeding grounds are said to be limited to a narrow range in North-eastern Asia and only fragmentary knowledge is currently available regarding its distribution. It migrates through Japan, China and Southeast Asia during the spring and fall and winters, for the most part, in Australia.
Hawk Migration Network of Japan
http://www.gix.or.jp/~norik/hawknet/hawk10.htmHawk Migration Monitoring Throughout Japan - including Links to other Hawk Migration websites in Japan and beyond.
Journey North
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/Over 4,500 schools, representing more than 250,000 students, participated in the Spring, 2000 Journey North Program. These students are from all 50 U.S. States and 7 Canadian Provinces...
Lesser Golden Plover Migration
http://www.paulnoll.com/Oregon/Birds/migrate-shorebirds.htmlShorebirds, like most of our waterfowl, nest on th arctic tundra and migrate to southern wintering grounds. Yet unlike waterfowl, many shorebirds -- sandpipers, plovers, godwits, curlews --- migrate beyond the confines of the North American continent...
Light Pollution - Artificial lighting and ecology
http://enquire.hertscc.gov.uk/hbrc/projects/lighting.htmlPopulations of our most nocturnal owl species are declining whereas the least nocturnal species are increasing.
Light Pollution - Bad Lighting
http://www.badlighting.com/Links to information on how poor lighting effects animals and especially migrating birds.
Light Pollution - Bird Migration Friendly Lighting
http://store.yahoo.com/elights/darksky.htmlWhether you call it Cut Off Lighting, Friendly Lighting, or Good Neighbor Lighting, it`s common sense to choose lighting fixtures that cut glare, reduce sky glow and eliminate wasted energy dollars. Many communities are passing legislation to enforce environmentally sound outdoor lighting practices, but you don`t need legislation to use courtesy and common sense when buying and installing light fixtures.
Light Pollution - Campaign for Dark Skies
http://www.dark-skies.org/No, it isn`t the opposite of heavy pollution! People have enjoyed looking at the night sky, one of the most beautiful parts of our environment, for thousands of years. Everyone should be able to see stars and planets, our Milky Way galaxy and shooting stars (meteors); but over the last forty years, millions of lights have blotted out the night sky for people living in towns, and even in the countryside road lights and security lights can cause problems for anyone who wants to see the stars.
Light Pollution - FLAP [Fatal Light Awareness Program]
http://www.flap.org/new/black.htmWhat to with night light to prevent migration casualties.
Light Pollution - Lighting in the Countryside
http://www.ctio.noao.edu/~emond/lpc/n-pollard.pptThe attraction of birds to lights has been known for a long time. A close correlation has been demonstrated between commencement of dawn singing in thrushes and critical light intensity at sunrise, suggesting that artificial lighting may modify the timing of natural behaviour patterns. Reproduction in birds is photoperiodically controlled, and artificial increase of day length can induce hormonal, physiological and behavioural changes, initiating breeding. Around 60 species of wild birds have been brought into breeding condition prematurely by exposure to artificially long days in winter.
Light Pollution - LiteLynx - Flora & Fauna
http://members.aol.com/ctstarwchr/LiteLynx.htm#faunaA list of links about light polution and animals including bird migration.
Maps & Distribution of the Birds of the Western Palearctic Region
http://digilander.iol.it/avifauna/w_palearctic/cover.htmlMaps of the birds of the Western Palearctic Region by Alberto Masi
Migration Information
http://www.migrationinformation.org/One of the best parts of birdwatching is bird migration. Watching the sun rise and see the birds fly over...
Migration Watch
http://www.bto.org/migwatch/BTO annual project...
Olympic Vulture Study
http://www.hmana.org/projects/olympic.phpThe Olympic Vulture Study site is dedicated to the turkey vulture migration in the Pacific Northwest (U.S.); specifically between Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada and the northern Olympic coast of Washington state. The text tells about the study and gives a chart showing raptor migration across the Strait of Juan de Fuca for the past eight years. There are links to other vulture sites, and to the park where the study takes place. This fall will be the ninth year of the study.
Operation Migration
http://www.operationmigration.org/A new generation of Whooping crane chicks has hatched and are currently in training...
Organbidexka Col Libre
http://www.organbidexka.org/navigati.htmPart of the Association d`Etude et de Protection des Oiseaux migrateurs - in French
Osprey Project 2004
http://www.ospreys.org.uk/AWOP/Update.htmSatelite tracking of the ospreys released at Rutland Water (England)
Ringing & Migration Studies (Europe)
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/6549/This page is intended to function as a bulletin board for the European ringing fraternity. When complete, a range of information will be posted. Here are just some of the topics. All Ringers (Banders) or those working on allied marking studies should join the BIRDBAND mailing list.
Satellite Tracking of Endangered Birds
http://www.spacetoday.org/Satellites/Tracking/SatTracking.htmlThe Patuxent Wildlife Research Centre, and the Direct Readout group of the Applied Information Sciences Branch (Code 935) at NASA`s Goddard Space Flight Centre are working together on a project to monitor the migration routes of several endangered species using satellite tracking
Shorebird Migration
http://www.ducks.ca/ohmic/english/special/shrbrdmg.htmlEssay
Shorebird Migration
http://www.stanfordalumni.org/birdsite/text/essays/Shorebird_Migration.htmlEssay
Shorebird Migration Tracking
http://www.prbo.org/cms/index.php?mid=216&module=browseShorebirds - the sandpipers and plovers - have something in common: long slender wings perfectly adapted for flights of incredible distance. Some shorebirds fly over a hundred thousand miles in their lifetime!
Storks Without Borders
http://www.ooievaars.vlaanderen.be/en/index.htmlOur site is on satellite tracking of Belgian White Storks. Since 1999, we tracked several storks and followed them by jeep from Belgium to Spain. The sites has recently be translated in English and provides links to stork sites all over the world, including the Oriental White Stork. The movements of the Storks are updated daily...
Telpost Breskens
http://members.lycos.nl/telpost_breskens/This site contains recent counts of Viz-Mig at Breskens in the southwest of the Netherlands. Now in it`s twenty-first year the group is as fanatical as ever to man the post as often and as long as possible.
Tracking Snowgeese
http://www.werc.usgs.gov/sfbe/snowgoose.htmlTracking the Spring Migration of Snow Geese from the Desert to the Tundra using Satellite Radio Telemetry...
Wood Stork Migration Study
http://www.wesave.org/stork/A scientific study was undertaken to track four, free-ranging wood storks, Mycteria americana, from their summer breeding grounds at Harris Neck Wildlife Refuge, Georgia, to their wintering locations in southern Georgia and Florida. The tracking will be made possible by attaching small radio transmitters to the birds, which in turn relay the birds location to overflying NOAA satellites and the ARGOS tracking system.
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